Digital Innovation Manager

About us

drb Ignite Multi Academy Trust is a vibrant and growing charitable organisation. As a unique family of fourteen primary schools, our vision and values are shared and constantly lived across all schools.

Established in October 2014, our Trust is an ambitious and forward-looking organisation with a clear mission to drive educational excellence across its schools. As a modern civic institution, we are committed to improving education for the public good. Central to our ethos is the belief that strong, effective school leadership and collaborative working are fundamental to achieving and sustaining this mission for the benefit of all pupils.

Operating across Birmingham and Dudley, our specialist primary phase Trust consists of thirteen community schools and one Church of England school, providing education from nursery through to Year 6. The close geographic proximity of our schools enables seamless collaboration among staff, allowing for the sharing of expertise, resources, and best practice to deliver sustained school improvement. This collaborative approach is a defining feature of our organisational model and underpins the strength of our community.

As a well-established Trust, we continue to look ahead with confidence, aspiring to further growth and impact across the West Midlands region.

About the role

The Digital Innovation Manager is a highly important role, supporting the Trust’s ongoing digital transformation and helping to ensure that technology continues to have a positive impact on teaching, learning and operational effectiveness across our schools. Working closely with the Director of IT & Compliance and Trust leaders, you will play a key role in helping our schools maximise the benefits of technology whilst ensuring that digital initiatives remain secure, scalable and sustainable. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills and experience to support a wide range of strategic and operational priorities, including digital learning innovation, educational technology, artificial intelligence, staff development, service modernisation, operational improvement and emerging technologies.

About you

As a growing and ambitious Trust, we are seeking a highly capable professional who embraces innovation, works effectively with others and understands how technology can support both educational and operational priorities. You will help deliver agreed digital objectives across the Trust, supporting schools to adopt new ways of working that improve outcomes for pupils, staff and wider communities.

You will have experience supporting or delivering digital or technology initiatives as well as experience working with educational technologies and operational technology environments. You will hold a relevant degree or equivalent professional experience and have an understanding of operational infrastructure, systems integration and scalable technology environments. You will also have an understanding of digital transformation and operational modernisation within multi-site organisations.

If you are seeking a fresh challenge, enjoy working across a wide range of innovative projects and want an opportunity to help shape the future of technology within education, we would welcome your application.

What can you expect from us

• Supportive and developmental culture
• High quality CPD opportunities and career development opportunities
• Collaborative networking
• Professional growth

For an informal discussion about the role or to arrange a school visit, please contact Alvin Walters, Director of IT and Compliance by email at [email removed] or on [phone removed]. Please note that CVs are not accepted.

Please note: In line with Safer Recruitment Practice, a minimum of two references will be sought for shortlisted candidates prior to interview. One reference must be the candidate’s current/most recent employer. The Trust is absolutely committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults through its safer recruitment processes. The Trust expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be required for this post.

We encourage all applicants to review our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy, which outlines our commitment to the safety and wellbeing of students.

As part of our due diligence an online search will be carried out for all shortlisted candidates.

Rehabilitation of Offenders

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.

Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016).

Therefore, the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.